The moment Sifuna, Matiang’i, Kalonzo, or Gachagua becomes President and starts having people come to State House to receive money, I will walk away - Onyonka
Charles Owino: We need to be honest about our morals and values. We talk about abductions and killings by the police, but how many people kill themselves and each other?
Serfine: Does this justify it?
Owino: No. But there is something wrong with our society
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I don't think many Kenyans have understood the weight of the figures David Maraga released yesterday.
According to the former Chief Justice @dkmaraga, 3,958 Kenyans have been killed by police since President William Ruto came to power, an average of roughly 990 deaths every year.
Now put that number next to the country's terrorism figures.
Available Kenyan terrorism data records roughly 343 terror-related deaths between 2022 and 2025.
That means the number of Kenyans Maraga says have been killed by police is more than 11 times the number of people killed in terror-related violence over the same four-year period. Think about that.
We have spent years being told to fear Al-Shabaab terrorism, and violent extremism as some of the greatest threats to our national security.
And rightly so.
But what does it say about the state of our country when the number of people reportedly killed by the police is an order of magnitude greater than those killed in terror-related attacks?
The police are supposed to protect citizens from violence.
They are supposed to be the institution standing between citizens and those who want to harm them.
The State gives them uniforms, guns, training, and extraordinary powers because we are supposed to trust them with our lives.
So when thousands of citizens are reportedly dying at the hands of the very institution tasked with protecting them, this is no longer simply a conversation about police brutality. It is a national security question.
Who is protecting Kenyans from those who are supposed to protect Kenyans?
And perhaps that is the figure we should all be struggling to comprehend: 3,958.
Not a statistic.
Not a political talking point.
3,958 human beings.
3,958 families.
3,958 stories.
3,958 people who did not go home.
And if a terrorist organization killed anything close to that number of Kenyans, we would quite rightly call it a national catastrophe.
So why should the identity of the person holding the gun change the seriousness with which we treat the death?
A terrorist killing a Kenyan is a threat to the State.
A police officer unlawfully killing a Kenyan is also a threat to the State.
The difference is that one is supposed to be our enemy. The other is supposed to be our protector.
Jackson Ole Sapit: The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen in Kenya. Every regime comes to power with promises of bridging this gap, but that has never happened. This is because we have never implemented meaningful pro-poor policies aimed at narrowing the gap by creating opportunities for people in the lower-income brackets
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"the victim was running on the center of the road" and "the driver was driving at 30 KPh"? That speed leaves a skull fractured? I don't think we internalise the scale of rot and decay that we are seeing in this country. Hii nchi inaisha tukiona.
How many things have contributed to his death? non-existent traffic laws enforcement, a county that refuses to build pedestrian footpaths, a healthcare system that's dead, police that are irredemably corrupt . . . I mean how do you connive to write a report that says
When I say that a broken country is a risk to everyone, I am not exagerating stuff. Picture this, a senior officer goes out on a jog, gets knocked down by speeding vehicle, he's taken to hospital where no staff are in, he starts getting treated 5 hrs later. Succumbs!
Pastor T Mwangi: The problem we have is not laying down the vision. We know what we need to do and what is hindering us from achieving this vision
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Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome, Kenyan Muslim Religious Scholar: There is nothing wrong with planning ahead, having a vision; this is where we want to be. Any law is as good as its implementation. It’s good to see people dreaming big, coming up with these good ideas and a very good vision, but are we doing the right thing to get there? #JKLive
Jackson Ole Sapit: Governance is about leadership and management. What has been bedeviling us is that we get a lot of misplaced priorities, and then the issue of management of resources that are placed in our hands; we see a lot of wastage in everyday life. If we want Kenya to work, give independent institutions their independence, let them operate as they should, then we can govern our country through the rule of law #JKLive